On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 06:38 -0400, Peter Arremann wrote:
This is a question for you guys out there that have a bunch of similar configured systems out there... How do you handle your updates? I do not mean the technical level, but from the logistics. No updates? Just run yum by cron and grab the latest of the web and trust the developers that it works? Deploy only certain packages automatically (i.e. omit kernel updates)? run your own yum/apt/up2date/whatever repos?
Thanks for your time,
Peter.
I create a local mirror for CentOS-3.x and CentOS4.x.
Being that I am a CentOS-4 developer, I just run yum upgrades nightly on most of my CentOS-4.x servers (Since I test the upgrades before they get pushed) against the local mirror.
On my Oracle servers (they are still CentOS-3.x and are extremely mission critical), I run the nightly yum updates on a test machine (where I also test the nightly oracle backups can be imported) ... and make sure nothing is broken, then update the other machines manually against the local mirror.